Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 00:56:52 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Bob Bomar <bob@ibsd.us> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fstab option to 'skip' a file system? Message-ID: <20050612005627.F90456@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <42ABADFE.90208@ibsd.us> References: <20050612001409.C90456@ganymede.hub.org> <42ABADFE.90208@ibsd.us>
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On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, Bob Bomar wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > | > | Is there an option that I can add to fstab (or some way of doing it?) > | that, when a server reboots, it will 'ignore' that file system, but I > | can still do a 'mount /fs' after the fact? > | > | I have remote servers that I'd like to manually fsck one of the file > | systems after it comes up, but I don't have a serial console enabled on > | them (yet!) ... so, i'd like it to ignore that one file system on > | reboot, but still have it listed in /etc/fstab ... > | > | Setting 'passno' to 0, I believe, will cause it to fail to boot due to > | an unclean file system, so that doesn't appear to be an option ... > | > | Is that possible? > | > > ~From the fstab(5) man page: > > ... > If the option ``noauto'' is specified, the file system will not be auto- > ~ matically mounted at system startup. > ... > > Just add noauto to the Options for that fs. Perfect, thanks ... I've used that for cdrom, not sure why I didn't think of it for a regular file system :( ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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